Short Recited Poems

Samuel Beckett-
                      addenda 23,recited, verse just right for me...

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The wife recited The Golden Rule
As she dashed into her yoga school
Each move is complex
Regardless of sex
But the vicar just swallowed his tool....

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Castle of Dreams

Lutes and violins
Gothic dreams, pleasures of sin
Recited poetry
In my chamber of fire
Wine distills lulled memories
She evaporates
Into my mind...

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A haikuist was Matsuo Basho
his masterwork,Kasen *you know
He practiced this long poetic sequence
a 36 stanza poem recited in length

*https://www.jstor.org/stable/2718744...

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A sonnet, anecdote,or verse
read by you, 
each page of memory followed
with deep hues,
recited in a beautiful tone
I stumble,
the visions stirring on my mind
as you drawl....

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Poetry:

Universe's ideal conception of harmony and beauty

Recited

By the rhythmic beat of the poet's heart, inspired by

The divine!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
    04 December 2020...

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Will o' the wisp-
                       Love, loves's desire


Please see my recent kindle ebook-Broken Monoku-a definitive guide (a sample from which can be heard recited on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro)...

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Russian chastushka folk poem I be,
When recited quite lively think of me.
My message is clear and not hype,
For when I’m sung I’m my type.


Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, Schoeningen, Germany
(September 13, 2014)...

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On Dad’s 75th, instead of singing,
we recited cadence.
On the video from 9 years prior,
Dad points out Mom’s huge smile
and I point out his.
I see his family line all likewise grinning,
joining in the smile brigade
from heaven’s open window....

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reading to ourselves

never speaking verse aloud

do we miss the point


Note: I was reminded of this aspect of poetry when my wife recently recited one of her 
favourite poems to me from her school days by Walter De La Mare 'Off the Ground'....

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the hapless toad
who croaked a verse
and moved the trees around him

did sway the branches
sway the leaves
at the most profound of meaning

and too did cry 
the birds above
at so beautiful a stanza

and soon to history
rose the toad
recited oft' thereafter...

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Hearing it again
for the thousandth rhyme,
still within the present
More inherent, more alive,
each reading
more resurgent

Hearing it again
the words still new,
reborn as they’re recited
Bleeding the moment
away from time
—no longer unrequited

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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HAIKU EKPHRASIS
A short-lived blossom of Spring
like a mayfly that lives for the day,
the pathos of beauty so fleeting,
a few syllables that remain,where 
less is more and the image lives
its life forever, in memory.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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IMAGIST EKPHRASIS
Wordless lines,indelible impressions
with imagination set free to flower
in the mind’s eye.Images rather than
words remain,colour & space released,
set apart,the extra from the ordinary,
a moment seen and then heard.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under name ichthyschiro...

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From the help spilled forth customary whines
Moaned that their duties were fraught with deadlines
   That it couldn't be worse
   If they were in a hearse!
Time to exchange their complaints for complines





Note: 'Complines' are evening prayers traditionally
          recited before retiring for the night....

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Writing
               a poem
is
thinking
                 out loud
                 secret
                            ideas
imaged
footprints
in virgin
                     snow
a unique
              reflection
of
unsaid
              thoughts
              recited
aloud
           ..framed
for the
crowd...

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Four dead Jesuits,
now confirmed as child
molesters, but when alive
these monsters’ crimes,
were covered in
obfuscation.

And when they passed,
were the Last Rites recited
and are they buried
in sanctified grounds?

May their rest be as
unrestful as their
victims lives and
and the fitful sleep
of their confessors....

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EXPRESSIONIST EKPHRASIS
Something so inexpressible,the 
challenge of everyday,sparks a 
chord so vivid from an uncontrolled
inner drive.This message beyond 
memory,the unstated void
distilling the hidden essence of 
our yesterday’s buried in today

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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ACTION PAINTED EKPHRASIS
Spontaneity drips involuntary &
yet deliberate from above.Joyous 
expression of inhibitions,inner 
experience made free to be.
Painter and creative force united
 as one living moment.It and its
residue,to remain, in epigraph.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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BEETHOVEN PHRASIS
Dim,dim is my eye, oh had
my fate been joined,oh so
sweet once were the hours.
The morning air plays on my
face.Faewwell,bliss farewell.
Farewell mirth & hilarity the
kiss of a dear maid,her lip
had left.O let the night my
blushes hide,my love without
hope.How can I be blithe&glad.
From Beethoven song titles...

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TURMOIL

My heart breaks within me-
deep inside I weep;
peace is so elusive my mind
cannot sleep-is love so unreal,
is it out of reach;who will be true
to me and their promise keep;
if I say a prayer,will faith take
a leap-do you have an answer,
to life...fathoms' deep.

Listen to me read this poem on youtube under the name ichthyschiro...

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FREE FOR ALL part 1
A milestone,a watershed,a tipping 
point sublime,to change the course
of, many lives,bringing peace of
mind.Concerns of health,age& dis-ease
free,now for one&all,without a fee,
without a plea for charity.
1946 UK NATIONAL HEALTH ACT
Listen to me recite these structured phrasis on youtube under my pen name icvhthyschiro...

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MATISSE AGAIN
Amelie,Marguerite each neat
dressed oh so sweet.Lorette
Antoinette portrayed so calm
and yet..day dreaming
student,Italian or odalisque
upstairs maid,enchapeau,chevelure
I’m sure, one if not all
awaited Henri’s call, never
to suppose immortality in
their canvas pose.

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under name of ichthyschiro...

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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
We had
Met and conversed
A rapport on first sight
A chance meeting..to a life-times
Delight
that
Summer
Evening,silken
Long..an encounter of
Initiations together
Explored
as Desire
Welled within
Words became a promise
So sublime,a love now,and for
All time

Listen to me read this poem aloud on youtube today under name of ichthyschiro...

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Cold snow covered all tombs and lanes,
Still he strewed the coffin with sprays
of flowers, to lessen his pains.
He uttered a few words of praise.
But snow showers
Buried flowers.

He recited poetic strains
Could only look down in a daze.
Hot tears fell upon her remains
Yet snow veiled all in a cold haze,
Irked and harried,
All sprays buried....

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